WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just as the post office was hoping to promote going green, it finds itself red-faced.
It turns out that a first-class stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty actually is based on a photo of a Las Vegas replica of the statue.
Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts said three billion of the stamps have been printed and it is not being pulled from the market. The 44-cent forever stamp has been on sale since December.
The mistake, first reported by Linn's Stamp News, comes to light just as the U.S. Postal Service is issuing a new set of stamps urging protection of the environment by going green. Those stamps promote actions such as composting, saving water, recycling and planting trees.
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